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Many scientists and tribal people consider persistent toxic chemicals to be the greatest threat to the long-term survival of Indigenous Peoples. "Drumbeat for Mother Earth" explores how these chemicals contaminate the traditional food web, violate treaty rights, travel long distances, and are passed from one generation to the next during pregnancy, causing cancer, learning disabilities, and other serious health problems.
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FIRST PEOPLES TV
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WorldLink's programming consists of first run documentaries, foreign feature films, global news reports and eight hours of world music each day. Launched in December 1999, the channel is available in over 17 million U.S. homes via basic service on the direct-to-home satellite services DIRECTV® (Channel 375) and EchoStar's DISH Network® (Channel 9410). "First Peoples TV" is the first time a regularly scheduled TV series concerning tribal peoples will be accessible to all urban areas, including the territories of every Indigenous nation in the United States.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY "It should be a source of pride that we Americans are not the stuff of which imperialists are made. No amount of pernicious globaloney from a cult of radical unilateralists is going to convince the American people otherwise."
- - Robert T. Grey Jr. (former U. S. Representative to the UN Disarmament Commission, 1998-2001)
RHINO HERE:
THE BOTTOM LINE ARTICLE is written by Robert T. Grey Jr., a foreign service professional with years of experience in dealing with international disarmament issues. His article excerpted below offers clarity. Grey was former U. S. Representative to the UN Disarmament Commission from both the Clinton & current Bush administrations. (1998-2001)
http://www.us-mission.ch/press2000/0218grey.html
He's now director of the Washington-based Bipartisan Security Group (BSG), which provides Members of Congress with expert analysis & opinion on security issues. Composed of the leading architects of the international security regime, BSP serves as a reliable resource for policy makers supporting the American tradition of security through international cooperation and the rule of law.
http://www.gsinstitute.org/archives/000144.shtml
But 1st, a sampling of press coverage on this weekend's anti-war protests:
FROM SUNDAY's S.F.CHRONICLE
"From San Francisco to Washington, D.C., from Paris to Tokyo, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the world's streets Saturday to protest potential military action against Iraq by the Bush administration and its allies. In Washington, where temperatures hovered in the mid-20s, as many as 500,000 protesters rallied outside the Capitol, while in San Francisco tens of thousands of peace activists marched up Market Street from the Ferry Building to City Hall.
Huge protests for peace
FROM SUNDAY's WASHINGTON POST
"Tens of thousands of antiwar demonstrators converged on Washington yesterday, making a thunderous presence in the bitter cold and assembling in the shadow of the Capitol dome to oppose a U.S. military strike against Iraq. Throughout a morning rally on the Mall and an afternoon march to the Washington Navy Yard in Southeast, activists criticized the Bush administration for rushing into a war that they claimed would kill thousands of Iraqi civilians, spell disaster for the national economy and set a dangerous and unjustified first-strike precedent for U.S. foreign policy. They delivered that message on a day when being outdoors tested everyone's endurance. Men, women and children fought off temperatures no higher than 24 degrees in ski masks and goggles, stashes of hot soup in containers in their backpacks..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12152-2003Jan18.html
FROM SUNDAY's NEW YORK TIMES
"Antiwar demonstrators took to the streets again today on a weekend of protests in numerous European cities, with marchers silently or loudly objecting to America's threats to use its military might against Iraq. About 10,000 people ignored chilly rains as they marched through the center of Brussels this afternoon to call for peace and to wave angry slogans against the Bush administration like "Bush only wants oil" and "No to Bushery."
In Ankara, Turkey's capital, thousands of people took part in an antiwar demonstration as Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in the country to push for American use of Turkish bases in the event of a war with Iraq.
At the Vatican, leaders of world religions appealed to believers in all faiths to work to avert a conflict in Iraq. The Vatican-sponsored meeting was attended by people from 15 countries representing Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism and Sikhism.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/20/international/europe/20DEMO.html
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By Ambassador Robert T. Grey Jr., San Francisco Chronicle, 1/15/03
Sept. 11, 2001 focused the attention of the world on the threat of global terrorism, and the international community responded collectively to the threat it posed.
But the tools for collective international action are being undermined by a small, radical and vociferous minority in the United States. It is difficult to see what sort of mandate this cult of radical unilateralists has, though many of them hold influential but unelected positions within the Bush administration.
The animated congressional debate over the Middle East shows that there is strong American support for multilateral, nonprecipitous approaches to Iraq and collective action against terrorism. Yet in matters relating to international peace and security, the unilateralists subject us daily to dogmatic assertions, sneering references to international institutions, the rejection of painstakingly negotiated treaties and repeatedly strident assertions that these zealots know what's best for all of us.
The blueprint for this radical version of unilateralism predates Sept. 11 and can be traced to documents written before the 2000 presidential election. Several high-level administration officials participated in the Project for a New American Century and its September 2002 report, "Rebuilding America's Defenses." The plan calls for enormous increases in military spending; new American bases in Central Asia and the Middle East; the overthrow of unfriendly regimes; the abrogation of treaties; the willingness to use nuclear weapons; and the control of global energy resources.
SEE THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT:
http://www.gsinstitute.org/archives/000154.shtml
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